At 83 years old, who would've thought that a world-class journalist would still be able to get the chicken pox? Well, Babs did, and now she's just been released from the hospital (it came with a fever) to continue her recovery at home!

Most unusual are the steps to how she got into the hospital in the first place: she fell and cut her forehead while in Washington, D.C. to cover the inauguration, then came down with a fever, and was then transferred to a hospital in the NYC where she was diagnosed with chicken pox!

This isn't the first time the 39-year-old's figure has caused controversy. As we reported in January, the American Pie stunner was accused of using Photoshop to make her already narrow waist even smaller.

Reid has admitted to getting plastic surgery in the past to make changes to her abdominal area and breasts -- but the actress asserts that she naturally has a lean shape.